Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This quantity is sufficient for 125 litres of compost , enough to plant up a considerable number of hanging baskets , pots and window boxes . |
| 2 | ( e ) Sometimes invite a student to write on the blackboard , eg to write out a dictation you have just given . |
| 3 | Almost at once it was opened , not wide , as he obviously expected , but just to a slit — enough to pass out a note . |
| 4 | ‘ There are n't any stones large enough to spell out a message with . |
| 5 | The markets are smart enough to guess when a realignment is coming . |
| 6 | Use the five steps and chart below to work out a reasonable estimate of the cost of rebuilding your home . |
| 7 | Because of this , it can operate for 15 hours continuously at full power , stopping only to pick up a new coal pack . |
| 8 | As in Chapter 2 , there will be room only to open up a few of the many possible perspectives and issues , and to suggest some ways of thinking about them . |
| 9 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 10 | They help with the provision of housing , food and employment and give continuing support with money , perhaps to set up a business , go on a visit to Pakistan or to cope with unforeseen disasters . |
| 11 | I 've been painting since I was old enough to pick up a brush . |
| 12 | You have only to look back a generation . ’ |
| 13 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 14 | Sane enough to cover up a murder ! |
| 15 | NOW you can see the fearsome fighters of the WWF in your own home — if you 're brave enough to let in a muscular gang of mighty strong men . |
| 16 | She covered it with her other hand , then , fearing that a hot hand might be enervating , she opened her fingers just wide enough to let in a little air and light . |
| 17 | You have only to give in a few times ( out of many when you stick to your planned ignoring ) to lose the battle . |
| 18 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 19 | Enough to put together a good story but not enough to rush into print with it . ’ |
| 20 | It is not necessary to like a client personally to build up a constructive relationship , but obviously it helps . |
| 21 | You have been fortunate enough to build up a reserve of savings over the years , or you may find yourself in receipt of an inheritance . |
| 22 | Linda was intelligent enough to recognise when a question was being dodged . |
| 23 | Did n't they tell you that no ship at sea , no ship at all , would be daft enough to send out a signal — well , not in wartime , they would n't ! |
| 24 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 25 | Behind his screens , Mike Quinn gagged on ropes of his own phlegm but was considerate enough to hang on a little longer . |
| 26 | After two hours ' work , I had managed only to hack out a shallow hole hardly large enough to bury a tortoise . |
| 27 | His films were relatively few and he felt confident enough to turn down a good many more films than a hungrier actor might have felt was healthy . |
| 28 | Press gently to squeeze out a star of icing , stop the pressure , and pull away the nozzle tip so that the icing star forms to a point and breaks off . |
| 29 | By the time the network was completed in the mid-1960s , it resembled a vast plumbing system with 18 huge pumps , each one big enough to suck in a car , driving 1 billion gallons of water through it each day . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |